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Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "'A robot has no consciousness, no ethics,' says Vasant Dhar, a professor of information systems at New York University’s Stern School of Business who runs a robo adviser for institutional investors. Without those qualities and the resulting moral code, a robot wouldn’t be capable of always acting on your behalf, he says."

Excerpt from CBS Sunday Morning -- "'[Eloise] basically owned a version of pink and said, "Pink can also be mischievous. It could be a little bit more playful,"' Alter said. 'That was a really good thing for the color pink. Gave it this extra dimension, and meant that pink didn't just mean being very well-behaved and doing exactly the right thing all the time. It also meant being yourself, and being the real version of who you are.'"

Excerpt from The New Times -- "'Surprisingly, even after globalisation’s recent gains, the world is still less connected than most people think it is,' commented GCI co-author Steven A. Altman, Senior Research Scholar at the NYU Stern School of Business and Executive Director of NYU Stern’s Center for the Globalization of Education and Management."

Excerpt from WIRED -- "Regardless of what orders might be signed or what new strategies are put into action, Washington is going to have a recruitment problem: There just aren’t enough incentives to lure AI talent away from high-paying jobs with great benefits into a life of public service."

Excerpt from NBC News -- "'The activists stopped Walmart from coming in,' White said. 'It was a symbolic event, but it did not stop the advancement of other big box operations.'"

Excerpt from NBC News -- "'This was a big fish,' Ginsberg said. Amazon would have created a 'positive loop — the ecosystem continues to grow new firms. Amazon would have been providing new sources of tax revenue in a city with crumbling infrastructure.'"

Excerpt from ETF.com -- "Dahiya and Yermack found that the performance of the typical endowment fund was so poor that it would have earned substantially higher returns if its trustees had followed a simplistic investment strategy of holding 100% Treasury bonds and taken no equity market risk whatsoever."

Excerpt from NPR -- "In other words, the Dunning-Kruger effect is people think they know more than they do or they underestimate what they don't know about a topic. And we see this all of the time at Thanksgiving dinner or on Twitter."

Excerpt from the The New York Times -- "'I believe investors will forgive even higher fourth-quarter losses if there's evidence of significant topline growth,' said Arun Sundararajan, a professor of business at New York University Stern School of Business."

Excerpt from Directors & Boards -- "Practically speaking, directors can most easily identify the issues they ought to focus on by looking at the principle profit drivers of their industry and assessing when and how those are in tension with desired social outcomes."

Excerpt from BBC -- "I think it's unfortunate.... Having Amazon here would create even more business, and it would create business not only for the tech sector and keep the talent here that would otherwise leave and also, of course be more attractive to talent coming here versus other areas..."

Excerpt from BBC -- "Susan Stehlik, director of New York University’s management communications programme, suggests offices and teams use a technique called 'appreciative inquiry'. This means that the team sits down at the very initial stages of a project and brings up their individual needs, schedules and preferences right out of the gate to the group – ideally, so that the group can adjust accordingly."

Excerpt from the CNN -- "'The fashion industry is a primarily white industry,' says Thomaï Serdari, a luxury branding strategist who teaches marketing at New York University. 'There's a very small percentage of people of color in the industry, especially as brand owners or as executives of high level within these corporations.' ... 'Offending somebody in this obvious way shows something fell through the cracks," says Erdem. 'If you have the right culture, these mistakes won't occur or it will be very, very unlikely. To me, it does reflect that organizationally, it's not quite right.'"

Excerpt from Poets & Quants -- "When Amazon was just on the West Coast, the company was NYU Stern’s top employer two years in a row. While we may be disappointed not to have them right in our backyard, we will continue to nurture this very strong relationship regardless of their geographic location."

Excerpt from The Washington Post -- "In the best-selling 2018 book “The Coddling of the American Mind,” Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt note that young people are increasingly protected from all types of danger, physical and psychic. Children are discouraged from venturing alone out of the house by their parents, who also adjudicate their disputes with other children. The protection culture often deepens in college, with the proliferation of 'safe spaces' and 'trigger warnings' to allow avoidance of hurtful ideas."

Excerpt from My Quest for the Best -- “We want to think about what the key message is. We want to think about where we are within the industry range and where we’re exceeding it.”

Excerpt from Quartz -- "'A very high proportion of what we are talking about as globalization is really activity that takes place in regions or among neighbors,' Steven Altman, a New York University researcher who helped develop the index. 'The international flows themselves are smaller than people think.'"

Today New York University Stern School of Business announced the launch of a new online Master of Science in Quantitative Management Program (MSQM), officially marking its entrance into the online degree category as the first and only top-ranked U.S. business school to deliver an MS in Management online.
 

Excerpt from Financial Times -- "Change is indeed on the way. But it cannot be left to happen. The cryptocurrency movement would reject that, because its roots lie in anarchistic libertarianism, as Nouriel Roubini of New York University argues."

Excerpt from USA Today -- "'There's social value in being sensitive,' said New York University marketing professor Henry Assael. 'I view it as a trade-off, as publicity for a minor league team that's not very well known latching on to a particular health issue versus possibly alienating some of their fans, because peanuts are a food traditionally associated with baseball.'"

Excerpt from Mundo Empresarial -- (translated from Spanish using Google Translate) "The main thesis defended by Ghemawat is that we are in a world in which globalization is still an important underlying trend, although the differences between the different countries and markets are maintained to a large extent, and this circumstance may persist for decades. It is what he calls the 'semi-globalization'."

Excerpt from Poets & Quants -- "'We assessed the competencies that give graduates of our MBA programs a measurable advantage in the marketplace and set out to develop an online program that delivers those high-demand skills with our MS in Quantitative Management,' Corfman adds. 'Our newest offering is ideal for non-business majors who seek knowledge, credentials and the flexibility of an online degree at this crucial stage in their career development.'"

Excerpt from Clear Admit -- "Of its 25 specializations, seven in particular—Banking, Corporate Finance, Finance, Financial Instruments and Markets, Financial Systems and Analytics, Quantitative Finance, and FinTech—fall into this category, and Stern students can take up to three. Stern also offers a number of individual courses focused on the investment banking field, including 'Law and Business of Investment Banking,' 'Investment Banking,' 'Private Equity in Entertainment and Media' and 'Entertainment Finance.'"

Excerpt from Il Sole 24 Ore -- (translated from Italian using Google Translate) "Luca Petruzzellis (professor at the University of Bari and visiting the NYU Stern Business School), invites us to always start from the concept of reward, because the customer's decision-making process depends on the benefits gained from the buying experience. In other words: what does the consumer gain from shopping?"

Excerpt from Ad Age India -- "Be mobile friendly: there is a lot on the mind of the always-connected, always-on consumer. While balancing everything else that is going on, they expect companies to understand last-minute needs and cater to them seamlessly. This consumer, in return, will pay with loyalty. Amazon is a prime example. For the companies that want to win, get mobile right, be friction-free and use history to better understand the needs of this digital-savvy consumer."